GameFront - Why I'm Not Okay with the Penny Arcade Kickstarter.But Penny Arcade doesn't need money from Kickstarter, or to crowdsource new projects. It simply would prefer to remove ads from its site for one year, at the cost of a huge amount of money. But itís choosing to gather that money not through usual business channels, but through Kickstarter ó and in a way, itís taking advantage of the Kickstarter culture and drawing away users who would potentially give funds to more needy projects.

NKD wrote on Jul 24, 2012, 21:58:Of course there are guidelines, they have to filter out the noise. But there aren't a myriad of subjective judgement calls and ethereal arguments about the 'spirit of Kickstarter'

If you look at their prohibited list it's mainly things that are illegal , otherwise legally restricted, or subjects notorious for scamming.

In short, beyond basic good-faith protection of its users, it doesn't make arbitrary restrictions.

The point was that by their guidelines, Kickstarter is for funding projects. This isn't a project, unless I'm missing something about it...it's a fundraiser to drive the web site instead of using their existing ad revenue.

StingingVelvet wrote on Jul 24, 2012, 22:16:There's a vast amount of people who seem to think their opinion is more important than the majority one.

There isn't exactly a dearth of cases where a majority wasn't exactly an indicator of validity. If people think it's a great idea, then they're more than welcome to fund it; I just question why Kickstarter, a site that's supposed to be used to appeal for funding for a new project, is the right place to do that rather than something on the site itself.